There are some simple steps you as a wemaster can take to protect your website from potential hackers. Most sites including this one are powered by PHP & MySQL a programming language and a database software based off of SQL. Most sites are on a lnux box (server) and have a WHM/CPanel backend. 99.9% of sites have ftp allowed. So we are going to use that info above and work off that.
There are a few types of hacking that should be prevented and here they are.